After SAG-AFTRA leadership announced that the union would be going on strike, picketing began on Friday. In New York City and Los Angeles, actors have joined writers outside the studios, picketing and rallying outside of Netflix, Warner Bros. Discovery, Disney, Amazon, NBCUniversal and others in both cities.
Corporate greed was at the center of messaging on day one of the joint picketing from SAG-AFTRA and the WGA.
When the bus carrying SAG-AFTRA president Fran Drescher and the rest of the negotiating committee arrived outside of Netflix’s LA offices, they were mobbed by media and fellow protesters as they inched their way down the sidewalk along Sunset Boulevard. Read More...
BaseballIn an extract from her new book on cheating in American society, JM Fenster explains how bending the rules has always been a part of baseball
Throughout most millennia, people were too busy avoiding sudden death themselves to worry about which sports teams made the playoffs. In those long years, a good season meant food. “Track” meant food and “field” meant food. Rooting, of course, meant a carrot. Prehistoric peoples didn’t waste words on sports, let alone billions of their hard-earned dollars. Read More...
US tourist Kent Carter fell instantly in love with the pristine white Caribbean sands and turquoise waters of the Turks and Caicos Islands, texting a friend: ‘Best beach in the world, bro.’
Just hours later the Army veteran and racial justice leader from Northern Virginia lay dead in a hail of bullets, the latest victim of a spiralling epidemic of gang violence paralysing the British Overseas territory.
Mr Carter and his girlfriend Alonia Williams were celebrating his 40th birthday earlier this month and returning to the £850 a night five-star Ritz Carlton hotel when they were caught in the crossfire of an ambush by drugs gangs. Read More...